BBC Has Officially Cast ‘Sex Education’ Star As New Doctor Who

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Just like James Bond, Doctor Who regularly changes actors from time to time. And while we still have no idea who will be Daniel Craig’s successor as James Bond, we know who will be Jodie Whittaker’s successor in the next season of Doctor Who.

Jodie Whittaker debuted as the Thirteenth Doctor in the eleventh series of the revived era of Doctor Who. Whittaker reprised the role in series 12 and series 13. Today, BBC officially announced that a Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa will take over the role in the forthcoming series. Gatwa is best known for the role of Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education.

Here’s how the actor commented on his casting as a new Time Lord:

“It feels really amazing. It’s a true honour. This role is an institution and it’s so iconic. I feel very grateful to have had the baton handed over and I’m going to try to do my best.” — Ncuti Gatwa for BBC

The Doctor Who series began its classic era back in 1963 with the First Doctor, who was played by William Hartnell. The classic era ended in 1989, and a revived era of the series began in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor and the series has kept airing to this day. Ncuti Gatwa will make his debut as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.